Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:33:10 +0100 | From | Giuliano Pochini <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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> >unlike floppies, real disks are often used in a much more random-access > >way, with multiple open files etc, and they are much better at taking > >advantage of large writes. Floppy accesses tend to be "save this file as > >a backup or for moving to another machine". Very different.) > > And when you say "ah, I wrote the wrong vmlinuz file, so just overwrite it > with the right one" and you have to wait the double of time before being > able to extract the floppy. That's ugly IMHO.
Not if you can make writes in small chunks. It doesn't make much difference if you write to a floppy in 100K or in 1000K chunks. If chunks are small only a few of them have to be overwritten. (I don't know how linux actually work... it's just and idea).
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